Chapter 9. JSR-107 (JCache) API

Starting with JBoss Data Grid 6.5 an implementation of the JCache 1.0.0 API ( JSR-107 ) is included. JCache specified a standard Java API for caching temporary Java objects in memory. Caching java objects can help get around bottlenecks arising from using data that is expensive to retrieve (i.e. DB or web service), or data that is hard to calculate. Caching these types of objects in memory can help speed up application performance by retrieving the data directly from memory instead of doing an expensive roundtrip or recalculation. This document specifies how to use JCache with JBoss Data Grid's implementation of the new specification, and explains key aspects of the API.

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